Manifolding sales-recording book.



PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904.

"RM; TURGK. w MANIFOLDING SALES RECORDING BOOK.

I APPLICATION FILED AUG-26, 1901.

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- ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented March 22, 1904.

PATE T OFFICE.

Y., AssieNoE TO TRACY YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- YORK, N. OF NEW MANIFOLDING SALES-RECORDING BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,080, dated March 22, 1904. 7

Application filed August 26, 1901. Serial No. 73,278. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK M. TURoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Sales- Recording' Books, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the other sent with same.

This invention relates to improvements in manifolding sales-recording books.

The sales-recording books to which the present invention relates are those in which the book consists of a pack of sales-slips bound together and each consisting of a sheet doubled upon itself so as to form duplicate (and sometimes triplicate) slips, the outer one of which receives the entries from the pencil of the salesman, such entries being simultaneously recorded upon the inner slip by a transfer-sheet of carbon secured to the book or pack and interposed between the slips at the time the salesman is making the entries. in practice the duplicate slips are torn from the packf(the inner slip being usually perforated at its bound edge) and then separated (the doubled sheet being usually perforated also on its fold-line) and one of the slips handed or sent with the goods to the customer and the the money (or to be charged) to the cashier. Upon the removal of the duplicate sales-slips the carbon transfer-sheet is introduced between the sales-slips of the next set, and so on until thebook or pack of slips is used up.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of such sales-recording books or packs by binding them together in such way that the outer slip of each duplicate set'may be more conveniently handled and opened or turned back and returned to overlapping or folded position without any liability of being torn or otherwise damaged and also by combining a transfer-sheet with the pack of slips in such way as to avoidthe necessity of removing one set of slips relating 'to one sale before entries can be made on the next succeeding set of slips.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sales-recording book embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the manner in which the book is used as sales are recorded. Fig, 3 is a detail perspective view of the carbon transfer-sheet used between the sales-slips. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a web printed and perforated to form a series of sales-slips, such ed and severed transversely into sheet lengths. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the web of Fig. 4 in folded condition and ready to be severedinto sheet lengths and also for the cutting operation which is to produce the binding-stubs on the several sheet lengths or duplicate salesslips, as hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of said drawings, the sales-recording book therein illustrated consists of a cover a and a pack of sales-slips in duplicate, stapled or otherwise suitably secured'together and to the inner end of the right-hand half of said cover, and each consisting of a single sheet folded upon itself on the line b to form the duplicate slips 0 d, overlapping each other, the fold-line b of the slips 0 01 being perforated, so as to facilitate as indicatedin Fig. 2. At its inner or binding edge the slip 0' is also providedjwith a line of the pack stub f, projecting from the slip a and beyond being cut away at its ends, so as to be of less length than the slips 6 0, whereby the salesmans fingers can be more conveniently and more readily engaged with the inner or free edge of the slip cl when it is desired to open or turn the latter outward, as illustrated in Fig. 2. TheSe-binding-stubsf are preferably formed upon the vertical edges of the slips I).

Combined with the pack of sales-slips (illusthe free'edge of the slip 0Z, said binding-stub web being designed to be longitudinally foldthe separation of said slips from each other,

perforations eto facilitate its detachment'frorn when desired. Each of the sheets. forming the slips'is provided with a bindingtrated in Figs. 1 and 2) is a transfer-sheet g, of carbon. (Illustrated in detail in Fig. 3.) This transfer-sheet is loose i. 0., is not connected with the book-so that it can be removed at will, and is, moreover, of such length that it may be folded over and engaged with the upper edge of the pack and be held by such engagement in place upon the pack and between the transfer-sheets when inserted therein, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The length of the transfer-sheet g is about double the height of the writing-space upon the salesslip,so that it may be doubled, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and after one of its carbon faces has been used up may be reversed, so as to bring its unused carbon face into position for use between the sales-slips. The carbon-sheet 9 also, as will be observed, in being entered between the sales-slips or while being folded back, as illustrated in Fig. 2, moves in a direction transverse to the fold of the sales-slip. This is a feature of importance in thatit renders it unnecessary to remove a slip or set of slips before entries can be made upon the next succeeding slips, for the reason that after a sale has been completed or partially completed the salesman instead of tearing from the pack the sales-slips upon which he has made entries may fold the carbon-sheet upwardly, as indicated in Fig. 2, and then fold the sales-slips containing these entries outwardly or away from the pack, and thus bring into writing position another sales-slip, and when he has finished his entries upon the latter slip he may,-

if desired, return the slips which he has folded outwardly into position for additional entries.

This arrangement of the transfer-sheets enables the salesman to make entries upon one set of slips of sales made, for example, in one department of a store, to then make entries on the next set or sets of slips of sales made in another department-or departments, and to then fold backor return to writing position the dififerent slips for additional entries should he make additional sales in the department to which they relate or should additional entries be necessary on such slips for any other reason. In like manner should the salesman after making sales to one customer and after entering such sales on the slips discontinue waiting upon that customer and start to wait upon another he may turn such slips away from the pack, enter the sales to the new customer on the slips which are then brought into position, and after he has finished with this customer resume his sales to the first customer and turn the latters sales-slips back to writing position for additional entries. This arrangement of the transfer-sheetin this way has also a further advantage in that it provides for retaining in the pack or book the several under slips 0, so that a'complete record of sales may be kept in book form,-the only portion of sales-slips removed in such case being the outer slips d.

Sales recording books such as those to which the present invention relates are sold at a low figure, and in their production the most economical methods of manufacture must be adopted. According to present methods the sheets which are to form the sales-slips are printed and perforated in the form of a web containing several sheet lengths in a machine employing rotary printing and perforating devices operated at high speed and capable of turning out such printed and perforated sheets rapidly and in large quantities within a given time. The webs thus printed and perforated are then severed into the sheet lengths, which when folded, the folding being done before or after such severing operation, form duplicate sales-slips, as 0 cl. To provide a pile of such sheets or sales-slips simultaneously with binding-stubs of the same length or width as the edges of the sheet from which such stubs project is a comparatively simple matter, as all that need be done is to fold each of the webs on a longitudinal line a little to one side of its center, so that one edge of the web will project beyond the other, then pile the webs one upon the other, and then transversely sever the webs into sheet lengths, the projecting.

edge of each web in such case furnishing the binding-stub. To provide a stub of less length, such as the stub f, however, it is necessary to cut away a portion of the binding edge of the sheet, and I have discovered that such cutting operation cannot be successfully performed upon a pile of webs or sheets folded. as just described, with one edge (which is to furnish the binding-stub) projecting beyond the other. The reason for this is that the pile of sheets or webs being of less thickness in line with the projecting edges of the Webs or sheets than'at other points lacks solidity or firmness, and as a result the cutting-tool in descending upon such projecting portions or edges of the webs or sheets has a tendency to glance off and make an irregular or inclined cut and also to tear such projecting portions or edges from the sheets or webs. In order, therefore, to properly cut through a pile of sheets or webs to form'such shorter binding-stubs, it is necessary that the folded webs or sheets should be of the same thickness, and therefore have the same firmness and rigidity, at the points where the cuts are made as at other points. I have discovered a method of cutting the webs or sheets to form'such binding-stubs which permits the webs or sheets to be folded so that they/ will have the necessary thickness, rigidity, and firmness at the points where the cuts are made, this method of c u tting, briefly stated, consisting in first partially severing one edge of each sheet by means of a slit of less length than the sheet, folding the sheet with this partially-severed edge overlapping the opposite edge of the sheet, and then cutting through a pile of such folded sheets and simultane- The result of this method of cutting is that ously severing therefrom the unseveredp'on,

tions of the partially-severed edges ofthe sheets and likeportions of the opposite edges.

the edge of each sheet which is first partially severed therefrom is entirely severed, while a portion of the opposite edge of the sheet is left connected thereto, which forms the hinding-stub of that sheet. This method is illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 of the drawings and will now be described more in detail.

Referring to Fig. 4, the web therein shown is designed to be severed on the transverse lines it into sheet lengths each of which provides duplicate sales-slips c d. The web shown in Fig. i is provided near one of its edges with a line 0 of perforations and is also provided with a central line of perforations 6, upon which the web is designed to be folded. The opposite edge j of the web is partially severed therefrom in each sheet length by a longitudinal slit i of less length than the sheet, so that such partially-severed edge remains connected with the body of the sheet at its upper and lower ends. The line of perforations 6 and h and the slits i may be and preferably are formed in the web in a machine provided with a rotary perforating and slitting device, which operates simultaneously on each sheet length to form such perforations and slit therein. The web of Fig. 4, with the perforations and slits described, is folded on the line b in the manner indicated in Fig. 5 and when in such folded condition is ready for the operation of cutting to complete the severance from the sheet lengths of the partiallysevered edges j and the formation of the binding-stubs f. In this operation ofv cutting a plurality of such webs are superposed one upon the other in the manner indicated in Fig. 6, and while in such superposed. position a suitable notching device, operated manually or mechanically, is employed to make the cuts indicated by full lines at the upper portion of Fig. 5 andby dotted lines at the lower portion thereof, these cuts completing the severance of the edges from the severalv webs and also severing like portions from the opposite or binding edge of the web, with the result that at each sheetlength there is left connected to the sheet a binding-stub f. It will be observed that when the web is in the folded conditition illustrated in Fig. 5 the partially-severed edge j of the web is in line with and overlapped by the opposite edge of the web, so that the pile of folded'webs is of the same I thickness throughout, considered widthwise,

as illustrated in Fig. 6, and there therefore can be no glancing off of the n'otching device or other cutting-tool employed during the cutting operation, and consequently no tearing of or other damage done to the edges of the webs or sheets. After the pile of webs has been thus notched or cut toform the bindinging-stubs f the folded webs are severed into sheet lengths by means of a suitable cutting apparatus and then formed into books or packs of the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

What I claim is 1. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one edge with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, substantially as described.

2. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one of its vertical edges with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, substantially as described. 4

3. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one edge with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, in combination with a transfer-sheet folding inwardly over the slips in a direction transverse to the fold of the sheets, substantially as described.

4. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one of its vertical edges with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, in combination with a transfer-sheet foldinginwardly over the slips in a direction transverse to the fold of the sheets, substantially as described.

5. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one edge with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, in combination with a removable transfer-sheet folding inwardly over the slips in a direction transverse to the fold of the sheets, said transfer-sheet being substantially twice the size of the writing-surface of the slips whereby it may be folded over and held in position by engagement with the edges of the slips and be reversed to bring a fresh portion of its surface into writing position, substantially as described.

6. A pack of sales-slips each comprising a sheet folded upon itself to form duplicate slips and provided at one of its vertical edges with a binding-stub cut away at its ends, the stubs of the several sheets being suitably bound together, in combination with a removable trans- 7. A sales-recording book consisting of a but disconnected from the left-hand half of H cover and a pack of sales-slips each compristhe cover, substantially as described. ing a sheet folded upon itself to form super- In testimony WhereofIhave hereunto setmy posed duplicate slips and provided at one side hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 5 edge with a binding-stub, the upper faces of nesses.

the several sheets being ruled at right angles FREDERICK M. TURCK. to their stubs and the stubs thereof being Witnesses: suitably bound together and to the left-hand J. A. GRAVES,

side edge of the right-hand half of the cover A. A. V. BOURKE. 

